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Vagueness and language use

Record Type:	Electronic resources : monographic
Alternative Intellectual Responsibility:	榼gr歋Paul.,
Alternative Intellectual Responsibility:	KlinedinstNathan, 1977-
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	Palgrave Connect (Online service)
Place of Publication:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY
Published:	Palgrave Macmillan;
Year of Publication:	2010
Description:	1 online resource.
Series:	Palgrave studies in pragmatics, language and cognition
Subject:	Semantics. -
Subject:	Ambiguity. -
Subject:	Vagueness (Philosophy) -
Subject:	Language and languages - Philosophy. -
Subject:	Language and languages. -
Subject:	LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES - Linguistics -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230299313An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
Notes:	Description based on print version record.
Summary:	Most of the expressions we use in ordinary language are vague, in the sense that their meaning does not allow us to specify a unique and constant boundary between the objects to which they apply and those to which they don't. An adjective like 'young', for instance, does not select for a sharp range of ages (does 29 still count as 'young'? what about 37, 43?); likewise a determiner like 'many' does not determine a precise number of objects in order to count as many. The phenomenon of vagueness raises substantial puzzles about how we reason and manage to communicate successfully with vague expressions. This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers which contribute novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness, with special attention to the linguistic mechanisms by which vagueness is regulated. The volume is organized in three main parts which concern respectively: the link between vagueness, gradability and the expression of comparison in language (how does the meaning of the vague adjective 'young' relate to that of the precise comparative 'younger'?) the semantics of degree adverbs and intensifiers (how do adverbs like 'clearly', 'approximately' or 'surprisingly' constrain the meaning of the expressions they modify?) ways of evading the sorites paradox (what are the prospects for contextualist and pragmatic solutions?).
ISBN:	9780230299313electronic bk.
ISBN:	0230299318electronic bk.
ISBN:	9780230238619Cloth
ISBN:	0230238610Cloth
Content Note:	Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: P.讚廨 & N. Klinedinst PART I: MEASUREMENT AND COMPARISON Vagueness and Scales; S. Fults Implicit and Explicit Comparatives; R.van Rooij Vagueness and Comparison; C. Kennedy The Inhabitants of Vagueness Models; G. Sassoon PART II: APPROXIMATORS AND INTENSIFIERS Two Types of Vagueness; U. Sauerland & P. Stateva Degree Modifiers and Monotonicity; R. Nouwen Clarity as Objectivized Belief; A. Cohen & L. Wolf Reasoning about Public Evidence; C. Barker PART III: THE SORITES PARADOX Supervaluationism and Fara's Argument concerning Higher-Order Vagueness; P. Cobreros Truth in a Region; D. Fara Vagueness and Practical Interest; P. Sweeney & E. Zardini Vagueness and Domain Restriction; P. Pagin Index.

Vagueness and language use
Vagueness and language use / edited by Paul 榼gr歋, Nathan Klinedinst. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - 1 online resource.. - (Palgrave studies in pragmatics, language and cognition).
Acknowledgements.
Description based on print version record..
Includes bibliographical references and index..
ISBN 9780230299313ISBN 0230299318ISBN 9780230238619ISBN 0230238610
Semantics.Ambiguity.Vagueness (Philosophy)Language and languagesLanguage and languages.LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Philosophy. -- Linguistics

榼gr歋, Paul.

Vagueness and language use
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